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  • Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

    Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout Byron Tau, politico.com The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day. The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social… http://flpbd.it/QUp0x Related articles Get wired or wither: GOP…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

    Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Start­up Show­case, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Mor­gen­thaler Ven­tures and the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence, I saw first­hand how health IT star­tups are tack­ling big, real-world prob­lems. Com­ing from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview…

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  • Dirty White Gold: a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side

    Fund “Dirty White Gold,” a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Jour­nal­ist Leah Bor­romeo’s documentary-in-the-making, “The Cot­ton Film: Dirty White Gold,” fol­lows the life of cot­ton from seed to store, trac­ing who it touch­es and how their live are effect­ed. The incred­i­ble… http://flpbd.it/5ti7j

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  • Infographic: Women’s health connections

    Infographic: Womens’ health connections By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/b1HK1 Related articles Heart Health Infographics – This Chart Gives…

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  • Birds with cameras take flight

    Birds with cameras take flight in ‘Winged Planet,’ tonight on the Discovery Channel By Justin Rubio, theverge.com The lat­est entry in the critically-acclaimed Plan­et series from the Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel and the BBC airs tonight at 8:00PM ET. “Winged Plan­et” — like “Blue Plan­et” and “Plan­et Earth” before it — is a nature doc­u­men­tary that uti­lizes……

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  • Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them

    Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them” Rip Empson, techcrunch.com If you get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to hear Clay­ton Chris­tensen hold court, seize it. Chris­tensen is a Har­vard Busi­ness School pro­fes­sor and renowned author and inno­va­tion expert, per­haps best known for his book “The Inno­va­tor’s Dilemma,” wh… http://flpbd.it/vxutu Related articles Turning openness into…

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  • TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission

    TechAmerica Foundation : TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission techamericafoundation.org TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission Data in the world is dou­bling every 18 months. Across gov­ern­ment every­one is talk­ing about the con­cept of Big Data, and how this new tech­nol­o­gy will trans­form the way Wash­ing­ton does busi­ne… http://flpbd.it/Q2zai Related articles “Big Data” Can Save Money and Lives…

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  • Measuring debate performance on Twitter

    Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around…

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  • Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier

    Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier – The Daily Beast Related articles House GOP Strips LGBT, Native American Provisions In VAWA (addictinginfo.org) You: As House GOP leaves women unprotected from violence, citizens fight back (allvoices.com) The GOP’s sequester messaging muddle (politico.com) Americans aren’t buying what GOP is selling (maddowblog.msnbc.com) Poll: Obama approval hits 3-year high,…

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